Toolchain-related FTBFS Jam today

[Stefano Rivera]

We have a fairly high number of FTBFS packages in the archive at the
moment, a good chunk of them due to toolchain changes (the linker in
particular).

As Nigel announced on the Planet [0], we're having a jam to try and fix
a bunch of them. Come and join us in #ubuntu-motu today (or for the rest
of the week), and get a few more packages building. We've picked a bunch
of no-add-needed and as-needed issues to work on [1]

[0]: http://nigelb.me/ubuntu/2011/07/27/fix-ftbfs-jam.html
[1]: http://corelli.tumbleweed.org.za/ubuntu-qa/bugjam/

I see someone already started last night \o/

In total, it looks like around 200 packages failing to build [2],
although there has been some decent progress since I started keeping an
eye on it [3]

[2]: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/
[3]: http://corelli.tumbleweed.org.za/ubuntu-qa/qa-ftbfs/oneiric-historical.html

For more details on these issues, see [4] and [5].

[4]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ToolchainTransition
[5]: http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking

SR

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